bug#24347: Bug when grepping a text file with some arbitrary binary data

[arnold]

Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:

> Another (orthogonal) idea: provide a configure-time option to make the
> default be the equivalent of -a.  I wouldn't argue that it should be the
> default (though I wouldn't argue against it either :), but such an
> option would make it easy for those of us who just want grep to be grep,
> and not be affected by the binary/text detection heuristics. -k

Hear, hear!  I heartily agree. I think it should be the default; this
is a case where meeting user expectations should outweigh being
POSIXly correct.  Just think how it will cut down the number of bug
reports about this ... :-)

Arnold